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Effect of environmental and genetic factors on education-associated disparities in weight and weight gain: a study of Finnish adult twins

Karri SilventoinenDivision of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USAAm J Clin Nutr 80:815-22. 2004

..Disparities in body mass index (BMI) between persons with different educational levels in Western countries are well documented, but the background of these education-associated disparities remains poorly understood...

Appropriateness of anthropometric obesity indicators in assessment of coronary heart disease risk among Finnish men and women

Karri SilventoinenDivision of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55454 1015, USAScand J Public Health 31:283-90. 2003

..The aim of the study was to compare the appropriateness of different obesity indicators in the assessment of coronary heart disease (CHD) risk...

The association between body height and coronary heart disease among Finnish twins and singletons

Karri SilventoinenDivision of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, USAInt J Epidemiol 32:78-82. 2003

..However, the mechanisms behind this association are still largely unknown. We will examine the role of genetic and familial factors behind the association in a large twin data set...

Assortative mating by body height and BMI: Finnish twins and their spouses

..To facilitate the genetic studies of stature we have also set up a website that lists all stature genome scans published and their most significant loci (http://www.genomeutwin.org/stature_gene_map.htm)...

Genetic regulation of growth in height and weight from 3 to 12 years of age: a longitudinal study of Dutch twin children

..Environmental factors affecting height and BMI during growth period are also important, and further studies are needed to identify these factors and test whether they interact with genetic factors...

Body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-hip ratio on the risk of total and type-specific stroke

..To investigate the interplay between genetic factors influencing baseline level and changes in BMI in adulthood...

Does obesity modify the effect of blood pressure on the risk of cardiovascular disease? A population-based cohort study of more than one million Swedish men

Karri SilventoinenDepartment of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandCirculation 118:1637-42. 2008

..Given the inconsistency of this result, we tested it using a large population-based cohort data set...

Heritability of body size and muscle strength in young adulthood: a study of one million Swedish men

Karri SilventoinenDepartment of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandGenet Epidemiol 32:341-9. 2008

..This may have inflated heritability estimates in previous twin studies. Nonetheless, we showed that genetic factors affect muscle strength and part of these genes are common to different strength indicators and body size...

Genetics of pubertal timing and its associations with relative weight in childhood and adult height: the Swedish Young Male Twins Study

Karri SilventoinenDepartment of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandPediatrics 121:e885-91. 2008

..Because the genetic background of these associations is not thoroughly investigated, we aimed to analyze it in a longitudinal twin cohort...

Genetic and environmental factors affecting self-rated health from age 16-25: a longitudinal study of Finnish twins

..14, 95% CI: 1.01, 1.28). The inverse association between height and CHD mortality found within monozygotic discordant twin pairs suggests that this association is because of environmental factors that directly affect height and CHD risk...

Joint effects of physical activity, body mass index, waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio with the risk of cardiovascular disease among middle-aged Finnish men and women

..Future comparison of the results of periodic evaluations allows estimation of possible changes in the effects of environment on timing of puberty. In such studies, HD:SDS can be used as a practical marker of pubertal timing...

Smoking cessation by socioeconomic status and marital status: the contribution of smoking behavior and family background

Ulla BromsDepartment of Public Health, University of Helsinki, FinlandNicotine Tob Res 6:447-55. 2004

..91, 95% CI=1.02-15.02). Indicators of socioeconomic status were important predictors of smoking cessation even when we adjusted for previous smoking behavior. For men, marriage was associated with an increased probability of cessation..

Genetic regulation of growth from birth to 18 years of age: the Swedish young male twins study

..We investigated associations between intelligence and coronary heart disease mortality and explored if they are confounded or modified by socio-economic position...

Factors contributing to sense of coherence among men and women

Salla Maarit VolanenDepartment of Public Health, University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, FinlandEur J Public Health 14:322-30. 2004

..e. childhood living conditions, work and family life, and social relationships, with sense of coherence (SOC) among Finnish men and women. A particular interest was devoted to interactions between sex and GRR...

Sense of coherence and its determinants: a comparative study of the Finnish-speaking majority and the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland

Salla Maarit VolanenDepartment of Public Health, University of Turku, FinlandScand J Public Health 34:515-25. 2006

..This study investigated (1) the level of sense of coherence (SOC), (2) the structure of generalized resistance resources (GRRs), and (3) associations of GRRs with SOC among Finnish- and Swedish-speaking Finns...